by Ken Sehested | Mar 4, 2021 | Opinion
The New York City district attorney announced in 2020 that it had launched an investigation into the 1965 murder of Malcom X, for which three members of the Nation of Islam had been convicted. Malcolm X (Malik Shabazz) had broken with the organization’s policy of...
by Ken Sehested | Jan 14, 2021 | Opinion
Admiring Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream is not the same as being captured by it. Too many find it possible to respect the man but relinquish the mission. It has become too easy to revere the dreamer but renege on the dream. So, let us now recall the deep roots...
by Wendell Griffen | Jul 21, 2020 | Opinion
U.S. Congressman John Lewis did not serve as pastor of a church. He did not lead a denomination. He was not president of a college or university. As far as I can tell, he never worked in the private sector. Instead, John Lewis spent his entire adult life working,...
by Chris Moore | Jun 26, 2020 | Opinion
Tulsa, Oklahoma, played host last weekend to the confluence of the first mass gathering during a still quite active pandemic, and the latest example of a much bigger pandemic – the virus called racism, which has infected this nation since its inception. Lots of us saw...
by Preston Clegg | Jun 2, 2020 | Opinion
Becoming a community of peacemakers is the calling of Christians worldwide. Second Baptist Church of Little Rock, Arkansas, where I serve as pastor, has made this a primal impulse of our life together over the past seven years. But occasionally, we must stop and...
